Bed with features for estimating environmental temperature

Abstract

One aspect is a system including a bed having a mattress, a temperature sensor attached to the mattress, the temperature sensor configured to sense temperature and transmit temperature readings to computing hardware, and a temperature modulating unit configured to adjust a microclimate temperature of a microclimate of the bed. The computing hardware can be configured to receive a stream of temperature readings from the temperature sensor, calculate an estimated environmental temperature based on the stream of temperature readings, wherein when the computing hardware determines that a user is present in the bed, the estimated environmental temperature is calculated using at least one temperature reading in the stream of temperature readings detected before the user was determined to enter the bed, determine a temperature adjustment setting based on the estimated environmental temperature reading and activate the temperature modulating unit to adjust the microclimate temperature according to the temperature adjustment setting.

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